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Antioch AD 265-266 billon antoninianus 3.01 g 2.16 cm 2.2 cm 7h

obverse: hd Gallienus l radiate GALLIENVS AVG
reverse: she-wolf stg r suckling Romulus and Remus AETERNITAS AVG
RCV III 1010171, RIC 628var, RSC 47
NMB List 3-12-84 1338* 

Publius Licimius Egnatius Gallienus c 218 253-268
(assassinated while besieging Aureolus (usorpator in name of Postumus) in Milan
by staff officers including Claudius II and Aurelianus)
Son of Valerianus c 195 253-260 and Mariniana

mints:
Rome
Uncertain Syrian mint
Milan
Cologne 257-60
Rome or Siscia
Uncertain Asia Minor mint 268
Antioch
Viminacium, Moesia Superior
Siscia
Eastern field-mint 257
Sirmium? Pannonia
Rome and/or Antioch

Decline fineness of the alloy
260 15%
266 5%
270 2.5%